'Crime' spotted a world away by webcam

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An Australian tipped off British police after watching via
webcam what appeared to be a robbery taking place in the
England.

Andrew Pritchard, of Boorowa in NSW, was surfing the net on his
new high-speed broadband connection by checking out a webcam ( http://www.exmouthcam.co.uk/webcam.htm)
in Exmouth on England's south coast when he noticed two men run
from a car to a beach-front kiosk in the middle of the night.

"I was about to log off when this car came along and stopped
abruptly on the Esplanade," he told the BBC.

"Two guys got out and headed directly to the kiosk, they
appeared to try out the shutters, it looked like they were trying
to break in."

Mr Pritchard quickly contacted British police who raced to the
spot to discover not a robbery, but a domestic argument - a man and
a woman arguing.

"Needless to say getting information from the other side of the
world like this is not an everyday event," a police spokesman
said.